Our Team

John Rudolph

John Rudolph

Executive Producer & Founder, Board Member

Jocelyn Gonzales

Technical Director & Senior Producer, Board Member

Maritza L. Félix

Editing Fellow

Quincy Surasmith

Managing Editor

Alejandro Salazar Dyer

Development Coordinator

Debi Zelko

Financial Manager

Jason Agyekum

Web Developer

Virginia Lora

Fellowship Mentor

Ignazio Monda

Editing Fellow

Board of Directors

John Rudolph

John Rudolph

Executive Producer & Founder, Board Member

Jocelyn Gonzales

Technical Director & Senior Producer, Board Member

Valeria Fernandez

Acting Chair, Board Member

Anne Donohue

Board Member

Karen Frillmann

Board Member

Aaron Leaf

Board Member

Sarah Kramer

Board Member

Former Managing Editors

 

Mia Warren is an audio producer based in Brooklyn, NY. Previously, she produced for StoryCorps and reported for Marfa Public Radio in far west Texas. Mia is the co-creator and executive producer of Feeling My Flo, a podcast for tweens and teens all about menstruation. She got her start in audio storytelling in Lima, Peru, where she documented stories in the Japanese Peruvian community on a Fulbright fellowship.

Rob St. Mary has been involved in storytelling since he started an underground student newspaper while still in high school. Since then he has become an internationally-renowned award-winning writer, radio & podcast host/reporter/producer, journalist, filmmaker, and crowdfunding professional. Rob is best known for his career in radio/podcast journalism with stints at WJR (Detroit), WOOD (Grand Rapids), WDET (Detroit), KAJX (Aspen), and the Detroit Free Press. During his time in commercial & public radio, Rob won over two dozen state awards for individual, investigative, and feature reporting. He was also a two-time regional Edward R. Murrow Award winner from the Radio-Television News Director’s Association. As an author, Rob received Michigan Notable Book Award honors in 2016 for his first project, “The Orbit Magazine Anthology.” A Knight Arts challenge winner, Rob is currently in process on a project documenting Detroit’s late 1970s punk rock scene. Rob is always interested in new ideas and enjoys collaboration with driven, creative people. He lives in Hamtramck with his wife & best friend, Erin Carr.

Mei-Ling McNamara

Rachael Bongiorno

Von Diaz

Aaron Leaf

Manolia Charlotin

Sarah Kramer

Diego Graglia

Aswini Anburajan

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